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Sunday, 28 August 2016

While there have been rumours that all 4G LTE phones will get Reliance Jio Preview offer, that has not been the case – When we visited the store, only select brands like Samsung, LG, Asus, Alcatel and TCL were available till yesterday. However, Jio has now extended the offer to other brands including Gionee, Lava, Xolo, Karbonn, Micromax and Yu smartphones as well.

If you have one of these smartphones, you will just need to generate your unique Jio code and head to nearest Reliance Digital store. All phones from these brands will be able to get free Jio SIM without making any payment.

How to Create your Jio SIM code

To get Jio Sim, you will need to first download the My Jio App from play store. Once you have downloaded the MyJio app, just open the app. After sometime, you will see a screen that shows ‘Get JIO Sim’. If you do not get the screen, it means your phone brand has not been activated to get Jio SIM.

You will also be shown a screen giving you details of which brands are enabled to get Jio Preview offer. Currently, it shows following screen.

You can close the above screen and click on Get Jio Sim as shown in the following screenshot. The screen will appear only if your brand is enabled or mentioned in the screen above.

Once you click on the Get Jio Sim icon, the app will let you know all the details of the offer. It clearly mentions that for 90 days you will have everything unlimited including data, HD voice, SMS and HD videos. You will need to agree and continue.

Once you agree to the terms, the app will first check whether the Jio Preview offer is available in your area – you will need to select your state and city from the drop drown menu. If your location is not there in the drop down menu, the offer is not available in your area. After choosing the state and city, a green tick mark will show you that it the offer is available.

After this you will shown with various steps on how to avail the Jio preview offer. The steps include generating offer code, list of documents to be submitted, getting the Sim from nearest store and then getting it activated.

After this, You will be sent an OTP on your phone and once it is verified, you will get a screen as shown below that will have the offer code.

That’s it – you are on your way to get the JIO sim. Don’t forget to carry you address and identification proof along with one photograph, and you are all set!

The Reliance Jio is due to launch sometime soon, but there’s a lot of hype surrounding it (and for right reasons too). Initially only employees were offered to try out the 4G LTE network, and then the SIM was being bundled with new Lyf devices. Recently, they opened up the free preview offer to select Samsung devices (detailed steps on how to avail it). Since then, people who don’t own those Samsung smartphones, are keen to know how to get their hands on a Reliance Jio SIM.

Yesterday, TelecomTalk had published a story mentioning that some Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 users are seeing “Get Jio Sim” screen on their smartphones. But then, when we tried, we didn’t see the same. Wondering why that’s the case, we tried around various methods and finally figured out that there’s an apparent bug on the MyJio app which lets you generate the coupon code required before going to a Reliance Digital store.

Please note that we are still not sure if Jio accepts this code to give the free SIM, but more often than not they only ask for the code screenshot, rather than the phone details.

Update (24th July 2016): The latest update to MyJio app has fixed the bug.

So here’s what we did to get the “Get Jio Sim” button on My Jio app.

Step 1: Uninstall My Jio and other Jio apps if you have previously installed them

Step 3: Click on Install All button to download all the 10 Jio apps. Exit the My Jio app

Step 4: Disconnect your WiFi and Mobile data.

Step 5: Open My Jio app, and click on “Open” next to My Jio. It’d be throwing “No internet connection” error on top, but don’t care about it. It opens the Login screen, and there you’d see the Get Jio Sim button.

Step 6: Click on it, and it’d throw an error about internet not being available. At this point, switch back your WiFi and tap back to go to the login screen again.

Step 7: Now click on Get Jio Sim button and boom! It will show the preview offer screen and lets you generate the activation/offer code.

We have successfully tried this method on Redmi Note 3, Mi Max and OnePlus 3. It failed to work on the iPhone 6s though.

Alternatively, there is another method which involves downloading all the Jio apps, restart your device, wait for 5-10 minutes, turn on the data and open My Jio.

Both these methods seem like a bug in the My Jio app rather than a feature, but definitely not illegal. Officially though, the Jio Preview Offer with 3 months unlimited data, calls and entertainment services is open for Lyf and Samsung devices only, so the store guys might insist the offer code to be generated on these devices itself. But then, there are no technical limitations, as the Jio Sim offered for Samsung is already unlocked. So if you do manage to get the SIM activated, it should work just fine on any 4G and VoLTE enabled device. But don’t be surprised if you’re turned down from the store.

Update: It works on ANY android phone, even those with no 4G (like Mi 4).

Update 2: The latest update to MyJio app (24th July) seems to have fixed the bug.